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Space Exploration Jun 11, 2024

China announces first astronaut candidates from Hong Kong, Macau

China on Tuesday announced the first astronaut candidates from its special administrative regions of Macau and Hong Kong, with the latter calling it a "glorious page" in the city's history.

Planetary Sciences Jun 11, 2024

Water frost on Mars: On the top of immense volcanoes, a briefly icy landscape

The formation of water frost is common on Earth, especially in winter when atmospheric water vapor condenses and freezes on the surface. On Mars, the atmosphere is about 100 times less dense than on Earth, but it too contains ...

Plants & Animals Jun 11, 2024

We have a moral responsibility to help low-income nations restore coral reefs, says researcher

The fourth global coral bleaching event is underway. It won't be the last.

Astronomy Jun 10, 2024

Astrophysicists calculate the likelihood that Earth was exposed to cold harsh interstellar clouds 2 million years ago

Around two million years ago, Earth was a very different place, with our early human ancestors living alongside saber-toothed tigers, mastodons, and enormous rodents. And, depending on where they were, they may have been ...

Astronomy Jun 10, 2024

Star cluster shines in new look from NASA's Chandra

Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest "super" star cluster to Earth. New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, in combination with other NASA telescopes, is helping astronomers delve deeper into this galactic factory ...

Astronomy Jun 10, 2024

Lone star state: Tracking a low-mass star as it speeds across the Milky Way

It may seem like the sun is stationary while the planets in its orbit are moving, but the sun is actually orbiting around the Milky Way galaxy at an impressive rate of about 220 kilometers per second—almost half a million ...

Astronomy Jun 10, 2024

Webb opens new window on supernova science

Peering deeply into the cosmos, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is giving scientists their first detailed glimpse of supernovae from a time when our universe was just a small fraction of its current age. A team using Webb ...

Astronomy Jun 10, 2024

Galactic bloodlines: Many nearby star clusters originate from only three 'families'

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Vienna has deciphered the formation history of young star clusters, some of which we can see with the naked eye at night. The team, led by Cameren Swiggum and ...

Space Exploration Jun 10, 2024

NASA watches Mars light up during epic solar storm

In addition to producing auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how much radiation future astronauts could encounter on the Red Planet.

Space Exploration Jun 10, 2024

NOAA's hurricane hunting GOES-U satellite nears SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch

Hurricanes Michael, Dorian, Ian, Nicole and Idalia have all been stared down by one of the NOAA's most powerful satellites since it took its place in geostationary orbit in late 2017. Its replacement is gearing up for launch ...

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